Terrorism in cyberspace : the next generation / Gabriel Weimann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weimann, Gabriel, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberterrorism.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

xvii, 296 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Summary:

The war on terrorism has not been won, Gabriel Weimann argues in Terrorism in Cyberspace, the successor to his seminal Terror on the Internet Even though al-Qaeda's leadership has been largely destroyed and Its organization disrupted, terrorist attacks take 12,000 lives annually worldwide and jihadist terrorist ideology continues to spread. How? Largely by going online and adopting a new method of organization. Terrorist structures, traditionally consisting of loose-knit cells, divisions, and subgroups, flourish on the Internet through websites, email, chatrooms, e-groups, forums, virtual message boards, YouTube, Google Earth, and other outlets. Weimann addresses terrorism's arrival online, recent trends-such as engaging children and women, promoting lone wolf attacks, and using social media-and future threats, along with ways to counter them. He analyses content from more than 9,800 terrorist websites and selects their most important kinds of Web activity, describes their background and history, and surveys their content in terms of kind and intensity, the groups and prominent individuals involved, and their effects. The book also considers cyberterrorism against financial, governmental, and engineering infrastructure; efforts to monitor, manipulate, and disrupt terrorists' online efforts; and worrisome threats to civil liberties posed by ill-directed efforts 10 suppress terrorists' online activities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Terrorism enters cyberspace

Narrowcasting

Lone wolves in cyberspace

The e-marketing of terror

Debates online

Online fatwas

Terror on social media

Cyberterrorism

Countermeasures : noise and the M.U.D. model

The war of narratives

Challenging civil liberties.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231704489

0231704488

9780231704496

0231704496

OCLC:

894777687